Both the passage and the lecture discuss the increasing salinity of the Salton Sea in California. The reading proposes several ways to stop or reverse this phenomenon. On the other hand, the professor states that those solutions are unrealistic and impractical and opposes each one.
First, the passage claims that they can pump lake water into special desalination facilities, and through that process, decrease the amount of salt in the water. Nevertheless, the professor denies this view and describes that it will cause some serious problems. She explains that in that process, some solids will dissolve into the water and pose a health risk. Also, some of the chemicals are toxic and can be carried by wind to places where people live and dangerously affect their life.
Second, the article indicates that by directing water from the ocean into the lake, the lake water salinity will decrease. Nonetheless, the lecturer rejects this idea and illustrates that, in this case, the government has to construct pipelines and canals for about 100 kilometers. She states that this process will be expensive, and the government may not have enough money to perform it.
Finally, the author states that constructing walls in the lake would divide the lake into several sections. After that, they can direct freshwater into the main sections, and only smaller sections remain salty. However, the speaker refutes it, saying that it will not work for a long time. She claims that there are many geological activities, such as earthquakes in that region. If a strong earthquake happens, those walls will be destroyed, and water from high salinity parts will flow into low salinity sections.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 370, Rule ID: SOME_OF_THE[1]
Message: Simply use 'some'.
Suggestion: some
...the water and pose a health risk. Also, some of the chemicals are toxic and can be carried ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, finally, first, however, if, may, nevertheless, nonetheless, second, so, as to, such as, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 6.0 10.4613686534 57% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 12.0 5.04856512141 238% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 7.30242825607 192% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 31.0 22.412803532 138% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 27.0 30.3222958057 89% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.01324503311 60% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1418.0 1373.03311258 103% => OK
No of words: 274.0 270.72406181 101% => OK
Chars per words: 5.17518248175 5.08290768461 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.0685311056 4.04702891845 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.55970321685 2.5805825403 99% => OK
Unique words: 162.0 145.348785872 111% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.591240875912 0.540411800872 109% => OK
syllable_count: 430.2 419.366225166 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.55342163355 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 1.25165562914 160% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.51434878587 264% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 21.2450331126 85% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 25.2744930711 49.2860985944 51% => The essay contains lots of sentences with the similar length. More sentence varieties wanted.
Chars per sentence: 94.5333333333 110.228320801 86% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.2666666667 21.698381199 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.46666666667 7.06452816374 106% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.09492273731 98% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 4.19205298013 24% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 2.0 4.33554083885 46% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 4.45695364238 135% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 7.0 4.27373068433 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.43063317541 0.272083759551 158% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.123066182931 0.0996497079465 123% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.140612440281 0.0662205650399 212% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.235449830882 0.162205337803 145% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.105978369079 0.0443174109184 239% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.3589403974 91% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 53.21 53.8541721854 99% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.76 12.2367328918 104% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.62 8.42419426049 102% => OK
difficult_words: 71.0 63.6247240618 112% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 10.7273730684 79% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.498013245 88% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.2008830022 80% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 75.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.5 Out of 30
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